Continuous compliance sounds like a major leap forward.
Controls will be monitored all the time. Evidence will update automatically. Audit readiness will stop being a quarterly scramble. Governance …
Most organizations can produce a policy faster than they can produce evidence that the policy means anything.
That imbalance is one of the quiet defining traits of immature GRC programs.
The library …
Technical debt is a useful metaphor because it captures something real about how deferred decisions accumulate cost. Engineers understand it intuitively. It slows delivery, raises maintenance burden, …
Most mature GRC programs know how to add.
They add frameworks, controls, mappings, evidence requests, review cycles, exception workflows, dashboards, and policy statements. Every new obligation or …
Control mapping is useful. It is also one of the easiest ways for a GRC program to look more mature than it is.
The spreadsheet grows. Frameworks are cross-referenced. One internal control maps to …
Most risk registers start as decision tools and end as storage.
That is the failure.
In theory, the register is where an organization records meaningful risks, assigns ownership, evaluates treatment …
Today is World Emoji Day, which means it’s time to celebrate… what exactly? Unicode standardization? Digital communication evolution? The commodification of human expression?
Actually, …
Today is Global Information Security Day, an awareness holiday you’ve probably never heard of despite eleven years of “global” celebration. That’s because it’s not …
June is National Internet Safety Month, which means it’s time for parents to be very, very worried about what their children are doing online. Conveniently, it’s also time for parental …
Organizations love to report passed controls because passed controls are flattering.
They suggest order. They suggest repeatability. They suggest that the environment behaves the way the framework …
Today marks eight years since GDPR enforcement began. Unlike most awareness campaigns we investigate, this anniversary commemorates something that actually works: the world’s first privacy law …
SOC 2 still matters. That is exactly why the industry has let it become something more misleading than useless.
The report was supposed to be a narrow assurance artifact: a way to evaluate whether a …
It’s International Anti-Ransomware Day. Time to be very, very afraid of ransomware. And conveniently, very, very ready to buy solutions.
What started as a legitimate effort to raise awareness …
World Password Day just ended, and with it, another week of password managers explaining why your passwords aren’t complex enough, MFA vendors explaining why passwords are fundamentally broken, …
Today is World Password Day, which means it’s time to feel bad about your password habits and grateful for the password manager subscriptions that will save you from your own human limitations. …
A lot of compliance guidance dies as slideware because it explains principles without changing the operator’s daily work. The more interesting recent GRC signal is that standards bodies and …
SOC 2 compliance has become a cargo cult ritual in enterprise security. Organizations implement the ceremonial controls, follow the prescribed procedures, and wait for security to magically appear. …
Sunshine Week is an annual journalism industry initiative held every March to celebrate freedom of information and open government. It was established in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors. …
The risk register that comes out of a mature GRC program should tell the board something true about the organization’s exposure. Too often it tells them something comfortable instead.
The most …
It’s Data Privacy Week. Or is it Data Privacy Day? The confusion isn’t accidental.
What started as a legitimate European observance on January 28 has expanded into a week-long American …
Your organization completed its annual security awareness training. Ninety-three percent of employees clicked through the phishing module and passed the quiz. The CISO has a number, compliance has a …
